The engineering sector is currently experiencing a lack of talented, trainee, qualified and experienced Engineers coming through. This skills gap is not just an issue for the engineering sector but for many other UK industries too.

What is a skills shortage exactly?

A skills shortage is when there are not enough people with a…

The use of social media by job seekers seeking new career opportunities is ever increasing. The days of looking through newspapers and industry magazines for ads, posting or faxing CVs over to recruitment agencies and organisations and calling company after company asking if they have any vacancies, are long gone. The first thing that comes to our mind when searching…

We recently interviewed a fellow recruitment colleague on the expectations that he had when he started out his career. He had the impression that he would go and hit the ground running, but after a couple of months he realised it may not be as easy as he first thought. This is what got us thinking about the importance of learning to walk before you can…

Long gone are the days of having to be stuck behind a desk and confined to an office, now we have the potential freedom to work from our homes, our local coffee shop or even our favourite holiday destination! Remote working has provided us with a whole new working world where we can be flexible during our working day, with more than 4 million UK workers now working remotely!…